Get an opening database like ChessBase or ChessTempo or 365Chess, filter by high-level games, and just memorize the top two or three lines in every positi...

The Chess engine works by analyzing chess positions and generating a list of moves that are the strongest. The chess engine is a back end with a command-l...

The History of Xiangqi (Chinese Chess, Xiang Qi, Xiangqi, Chinese-Chess, Chinesechess) Most people believe that Xiangqi and Shogi are variants of Internat...

Typically, the player to the right of the dealer collects together all the cards from the previous hand and squares the deck. The deck is then passed to t...

If you are unfamiliar with the term, a 4-bet fold is when there is a raise (2), re-raise (3), re-re-raise (4), a player shoves and then the other player f...

As far as the ethics of a check-raise is concerned, there are no qualms: a check-raise is not an unethical play any more than any bluff of value-bet is un...

A gambit (from ancient Italian gambetto, meaning “to trip”) is a chess opening in which a player sacrifices material with the aim of achieving a subsequen...

PokerTracker 4 cannot import PokerStars hand histories or display the Heads Up Display (HUD) in real-time while playing without prior configuration. Choos...

The top 30 Omaha starting hands are as follows: 1. A-A-K-K 11. K-Q-J-T 21. Q-Q-A-K 2. A-A-J-T 12. K-K-T-T 22. Q-Q-A-J 3. A-A-Q-Q 13. K-K-A-Q 23. Q-Q-A-T 4...

A Swiss tournament is different than a Round-Robin tournament in that no players are eliminated. Every player will play every round, and the player with t...